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To Shade or not to Shade?

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At the moment I use Chase Plane to adjust brightness in P3Dv5. 

There are dedicated Shaders programs, RD and Toga, being two I know of.

What is the feeling about using these programs? Are they worth the money vis-a-vis the results?

Ian

Intel i7 6700K @4.3. 32gb Gskill 3200 RAM. Z170x Gigabyte m/b. 28" LG HD monitor. Win 10 Home. 500g Samsung 960 as Windows home. 1 Gb Mushkin SSD for P3D. GTX 1080 8gb.

I use ENVShade and enjoy it.  I've considered RDShade since it's realease but haven't purchased as I am happy with ENVShade.  TOGA is working on a new shader program but it has been really quiet from them lately, but it may be worth it for you to wait and see what they come out with.  If you don't want to wait, ENVShade works well for me and at 6 Euro it is a good deal in my opinion.

I'd also consider ENVTEX if you are using Active Sky Cloud Art as the sky textures Envtex provides are some of the best I've ever seen in any sim and they work seamlessly with Active Sky and Cloud Art. 

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Orman

I use EVNshade but tell you the truth I don’t see any big advantage in P3DV5 with EA on. In version five you can now make adjustments to brightness and color live in sim on the fly.

As far as EVNTEX goes the main thing I like about it is being able to darken or muddy up my inland water, ie lakes ponds and rivers. 

Any support on the TOGA forum is more user to user then from the developer.

Vic green

I am very pleased with RDShade. With release 1.2 there are many more adjustment options. I am using it with AS and EA on.

Gigabyte x670 Aorus Elite AX MB; AMD 7800X3D CPU; Deepcool LT520 AIO Cooler; 64 Gb G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO DDR5 6000; Win11 Pro; P3D V5.4; 1 Samsung 990 2Tb NVMe SSD: 1 Crucial 4Tb MX500 SATA SSD; 1 Samsung 860 1Tb SSD; Gigabyte Aorus Extreme 1080ti 11Gb VRAM; Toshiba 43" LED TV @ 4k; Honeycomb Bravo.

 

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